(access.denied– flickr/creative commons license) This 1972 project combined residential and commercial. It has 560 residences, shops, cafés, restaurants, a supermarket, and a cinema. This private development was designed by Patrick Hodgkinson, but never fully completed for lack of funds. The …
Category: England
The 30 St Mary Axe is also known as The Gherkin, or The Swiss Re Tower, in London England. Completed in 2004, it was designed by Foster and Partners with Arup. From the Thames, one can see this missile-shaped building …
(m.a.r.c.– flickr/creative commons license London England’s Tate Modern Museum of modern art is a reuse of a large factory, the Bankside Power Station, just next to the Shakespeare Pavilion, next to the Thames. The extensive variety of modern art has …
(Damian Cugley– flickr/creative commons license) The Hayward Gallery in London is on the south bank of the Thames in London near several other important entertainment venues. It’s brutalist style has been criticized, and there’s been a lot done to pretty …
(p_a_h– flickr/creative commons license) English Hertiage recently announced six options for the new Stonehenge visitors centre by Denton Corker Marshall. Each scenario involves the closure of the highway running right through the site and a transportation system for visitors to …
Here’s a £12.5m extension to architect John Rylands Library by Austin-Smith:Lord. This extension to the library in Manchester abstracts the precedent neo-gothic 1900 Basil Champney library. This five story building expresses no subtlety as it links old and new, inside …
(stuartpilbrow– flickr/creative commons license) In 2002, the Natural History Museum in London, England opened a new addition. The Charles Darwin centre design by HOK International sits beside the landmark Romanesque revival Natural History Museum building. It uses “architecture parlante” to …
Completed October 2007, this was Denton Corker Marshall’s first major civic building in UK. John Denton said, “We wanted to create a building that would not only signal and display the transparency and accessibility of the courts and courts …
(Reading Tom– flickr/creative commons license) The aim is for this gentle, sculptural building built on the prominant Liverpool harbor to become the word’s top museum about a city. It will showcase the city’s musical and artistic achievment, expecting to …
(stevecadman– flickr/creative commons license) Since it’s creation in 1939, the Battersea Powerstation in London has been an icon of brick structures and of power generation. It is no wonder then that many top architects have been interested recently in making …